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- 1Multistore modelA
Test primacy-recency effect.
P
Participants were asked to read a series of 20 words.
They were then asked to recall the 20 words in any order.
In another variation, a distraction task was performed before recall.
F
Participants remembered the the first and last few words better.
Results reliably fall into a pattern known as “serial position curve”.
C
First few words – because they had more time to rehearse the words, encoding them into their long term memory store.
Last few words – because it is still in the short term memory store.
In the variation, the last few words were not recalled because of loss through decay.
Provides evidence for multi-store model of memory. - 2—
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